Editorial standards

Where images come from

Images are licensed stock, work published with an artist's permission and credit, or produced for this site. We do not republish work taken from social platforms or from a studio's portfolio.

What we check on every image

• Anatomy: hands, fingers and joints are the first thing we reject.
• Line quality: designs that would not hold up as a real tattoo are out.
• Placement clarity: the body area has to be unambiguous.
• Caption accuracy: area, size, style and colour are written as text, not baked into the picture.

Artists

If you are an artist and want your work featured with a credit and a link, or you have found your work here without permission, get in touch and we will act the same day.

What we do not do

• We do not give medical guidance. Healing, skin reactions and removal are questions for your artist or a doctor.
• We do not present tattoos as a decision for anyone under 18.
• We describe cultural motifs by their origin, or we leave them out.

How captions are checked

The visible body area must support the placement label. Size is an estimate unless the artist supplies a measurement, so captions use a range when a precise number cannot be verified. Style and colour describe what appears in the image rather than assigning an artist to a movement they have not used themselves.

Corrections and removals

A correction request should include the page address, image title and the proposed change. Rights and consent concerns are reviewed before routine editorial suggestions. When ownership or permission cannot be confirmed quickly, the disputed image can be removed while the request is checked.